with small-scale farmers and have assisted them in achieving GlobalGap certification. Indeed, in contrast with countries … where farmers seeking certification have to pay for it, in Madagascar certification costs have been entirely supported by … understanding potential mechanisms through which Malagasy farmers may benefit from GlobalGap standards and assessing consequences on …

the United States (KUS-FTA). We use an equilibrium displacement model to ask how market prices, quantities and other … and no reduction in U.S. rice subsidy even though Korea must still expand its WTO-multilateral quota. A KUS-FTA is likely …

, environmentally and health conscious consumers in recent years. While coffee certification programs have been in place for over … fifteen years, there are few studies on the welfare impacts of certification schemes. Therefore, this research seeks to … analyse the impacts of certification on poverty alleviation and to identify the critical factors which explain success or …

research identifies the move towards certification for bamboo globally, but highlights the lack of culturally embedded enabling … of nature into mainstream markets through certification or carbon trading could have resonance. Agricultural economists …

We develop a general equilibrium households model to analyze the effects of high standards food chains taking seriously … dataset from China and do simulations through three ways: increasing world price of high standards food, increasing urban … households’ preference for high standards food, and relaxing credit constraints on high standards food production. The simulation …

Increasing awareness of food safety issues has brought a boost in sanitary and phytosanitary regulations and standards … estimations suggest that, on average, quality standards and packaging and labeling issues are considered the most stringent. We …

This paper explores the competing concepts of 'standards as barriers' and standards as catalysts' in the context of … food safety standards in international trade in agricultural and food products. It is suggested that food safety standards … food safety standards can throw some light on the circumstances under which standards act to prohibit trade or …

The challenge of implementing EU quality and safety standards for food production and trading is one of the driving … models to identify determinants of the diffusion rate of standards in a food chain under pre-accession conditions. We argue … as pricing behavior, compliance costs and market structure, all of which influence the adoption of standards, are …

Consumers have increasing demands for product standards. This has important implications for development. This paper … develops a formal theory of the process of the introduction of high product standards in developing countries. The model … endogenizes the introduction of high standards. Initial differences in income, the nature of capital constraints and transaction …

Throughout recent year food quality standards have become a ubiquitous phenomenon that nationally and globally … review possible approaches to modeling standards existent in the literature, elaborate the reasoning behind them and discuss … specific situation, they may not be appropriate in others. That is they capture certain effects of standards only. With …